"But then again, when you face it, and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now - I've never felt that type of strength," Woods told ESPN in his first interview since his Thanksgiving weekend accident.

"I was living a life of a lie, I really was. And I was doing a lot of things that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly," Woods said.